Strategies for professionals in the workplace: Performance reviews

You know, remember I talked about the CAR method, Andrew. One thing I realized as a benefit of that, that I didn't expect was, when I was writing the CAR method, I don't know about you, but we have performance reviews every year. And I'm going to be honest, Andrew, I just don't like them. They require writing about myself. I usually at a busy time of the year anyway, and it's like the last thing I want to do. And, you know, you have to kind of self-evaluate, you know, you check off like exceeds expectations, meets expectations. And, you know, every year I do these, I'm like, who am I to write exceeds expectations. Right. So, you know, do mostly a lot of meets and then a couple of exceeds. Right. You know. But last year was very interesting. When I sat down, two things happened. And this is where I want people to, again, understand that by building this practice of self-advocacy, it's okay. And so what happened was, when I sat down to do it, I started groaning. And then I said, "Wait a…